When Céleste Audet Lapointe was born on 14 March 1833, in La Malbaie, Charlevoix-Est, Quebec, Canada, her father, François Audet dit Lapointe, was 40 and her mother, Olive Belay, was 29. She married Étienne Desbiens on 17 February 1851, in Saint-Étienne de la Malbaie, Canada East, British North America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Saint-Francois-Xavier, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada in 1881. She died on 26 April 1904, in Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Pierre, Alain, Alphonse, Emile, Marcel, Michel, Normand, Benoit, Camil, Donat, Edouard.
French: derivative of the ancient Germanic personal name Aldo, based on the element ald ‘old’. Compare Audette and Odette .
History: Nicolas Audet dit Lapointe, a soldier from Maulais in the Poitou region of France, is recorded in Île d'Orleans, QC, in 1670, when he married Madeleine Després. His descendants also bear altered forms of the surname, such as Audette and Odette, and the former secondary surname Lapointe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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